a. colloq. or dial. [f. WRANGLE sb. + -SOME.] Given to wrangling; quarrelsome; contentious, peevish; ‘mean’ drunkenness.
1817. Ann. Reg., Chron., App. 215/1. Why do you flurry yourself so much: the child is only a little wranglesome and cross.
1827. Chester Chron., 13 July, 3/3. Williamson said he would have let the prisoner go about his business when he got his pigs back, but he was wranglesome and would not go; and the prisoner at the same time said he was drunk and did not mean to steal the pigs.
1847. Halliwell.
1869–. in dialect use (Yks., Lanc. and Chesh.).
